Spend the slushfest on the bunny hill with my 8 year old, her 10 year old friend, and next to my 5 year old taking her first ski lesson! $40 for my ticket, $20 for my 5 year olds 2 hour lesson and $20 for her rental. All 3 of them got free lift tickets as well has cotton candy and snow cones from the spring festival up there. Pretty sweet!

And on Easter Sunday, I didn't get to go but they had a free ride to the top of lift 1 for an Easter Sunday service followed by free pancake breakfast and an easter egg hunt with summer concert tickets and a pass for next season hidden in some eggs!

They say they are adding more trails next year, so I'm really excited to see what they have planned for next season!

For sure. They have a 12 year plan (ugh) to expand all the way up, but currently chair doesn't even go halfway up the top. Base lodge is at 8510 feet, top of chair 1 is 9310 feet, but longest run is 3000 feet. There is a good 2000 feet of hiking up. It's not groomed, but they do avalanche control up there and it's a pretty clear open shot.

I'm not sure which runs they are adding this season, but I don't they put in any new lifts, so they probably didn't add any higher runs, just more lower byway criss cross runs as the 2 main lines go in 2 completely different directions leaving plenty of room for more runs. I think I posted a pic of their plans a page or 2 back.

haha, we'll be the only people getting our touring gear ready at the top of the lift . . . . But seriously, I do want to get down there when there's snow and if conditions permit you know I have an extra splitter set up I could bring to bear on the situation.

NICE! I've always wondered how those split setups worked! But I haven't done the hike yet. Natural conditions weren't great last season, but snowmaking covers all the main runs so we stuck to those. I was thinking about just picking up some snow shoes to through in my pack to give it a shot. We'll just have to see how the snow goes this year...

Crazy, right? We were the first resort to open last season too. they had installed new snow blowers and it just happen to get cold enough a couple weeks in October and blew enough to open the bunny hill for a weekend last october!

I do live in Vegas, but I wasn't actually up at Lee. I grabbed that pic off their website. And chillwill is right, it's actually in Lee Canyon which is between Mount Charleston and some other peak. Used to be called "Lee Ski Resort" but has been under new management for about 6 years now (same guys who run Boreal) and now called "Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort" (LVSSR).

What's funny is I think this is the first year they have been open for summer activities like frisbie golf, scenic chair lift rides and a summer concert series, and this crazy storm hit the DAY AFTER they had just closed their summer season! I think this is a good sign for this winter

^ the first resort where? A basin was the first resort to open in the country last season on October 13th, Loveland was the 14th. And once they opened it was for the season, not just a weekend. Unless you're talking about first resort in your area, which makes sense.

Originally posted by Shift4200

Oh i saw it, but i thought to myself no way that LV has beaten other parts of the country to the first snow... i guess I stand corrected.

We've already got a few small snowfalls here too in the mountains, first one was around a month ago, but it's all melted the next day. I kinda hope the big snowfalls hold off til later this season, we had a 15" storm come through last October that made the backcountry snow really unstable the whole year.

^ the first resort where? A basin was the first resort to open in the country last season on October 13th, Loveland was the 14th. And once they opened it was for the season, not just a weekend. Unless you're talking about first resort in your area, which makes sense.

Originally posted by Shift4200

Oh i saw it, but i thought to myself no way that LV has beaten other parts of the country to the first snow... i guess I stand corrected.

We've already got a few small snowfalls here too in the mountains, first one was around a month ago, but it's all melted the next day. I kinda hope the big snowfalls hold off til later this season, we had a 15" storm come through last October that made the backcountry snow really unstable the whole year.

We had similar on/off snow here in the east last year too. Rode on Halloween weekend in good coverage, then it melted to nothing... again for Thanksgiving, and again gone before I even left VT for the weekend. In fact on Tday, we rode in some pretty heavy falling snow... would fill tracks before you could lap the mountain. Shame it was gone in a matter of hours.

I too hope that all this early snow is a good sign for the winter to come.

^ the first resort where? A basin was the first resort to open in the country last season on October 13th, Loveland was the 14th. And once they opened it was for the season, not just a weekend. Unless you're talking about first resort in your area, which makes sense.

Yup...it's finally dropping temps. Got a little bit of clouds and snowmaking is in full force for opening day next weekend! I was really impressed with how much coverage they got blowing snow last year, and this year they cleared a few more trees to make more runs. Should be good...

Yeah, they've made all kinds of improvements. They re-did the bar and grill. They resurfaced the deck on the patio. They added the new 4 seater to the bunny hill. And they added in some more runs, like you said. Its nice that they are spending money on the place to improve it.

I'm surprised that they did not raise their prices with all the improvements they did.

They did last year, I'm sure to raise money for everything they did this year, but only a little. Still, prices are pretty high for what they have, but I don't mind. Can't beat an hour drive from the middle of the desert to snow!

Exactly. I agree the prices are pretty high being that it is a smaller resort, especially the Adult Anytime season pass. But to be able to drive less than 1 hour from Las Vegas to go boarding is great.

And, if you don't want to drive, they have that bus that will take you for $20 round trip. Awesome deal.

I went up on Thursday. We have had 0 snow, so it's all man made, but they do a great job with it. No trees and nothing off the groomers cause it's rock, but they did manage to put up a couple rails and boxes, and even got 2 little hips and 2 decent size kickers out of it. Best part, since they only have the 1 main lift running (out of 3) they are charging pre-season prices which is $35 full day. Considering it's the only lift you really want to use anyway, it's a good deal.

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